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Gramps Software Bundle for Windows

This is work in progress... Any files listed here is in development state and may be not suitable for normal every day use! Any coment and help are welcom.

Gramps software bundle is all-in-one install package of Gramps dependencies on Windows platform

Why:

• easy installation:
  • no searching web for appropriate package
  • one click install
• no dependency hell:
  • all libraries can work one together
  • on upgrade version of library rebuild all others with that version

How:

• put all software Gramps needs in one package:

1. all core non-python library and aplications
2. any optional non-python library and aplications
3. python bindings for core libraries
4. python bindings for optional libraries

• use NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

When:

• work on first task is started
  
  

Software release:

GBundle v.0.0.1

Gbundle-0.0.1 is first release of Gramps Software Bundle
To see how it work take look at GBundle.nsi which is NSIS install script

How to use

Download file Gbundle-0.0.1.zip and rename it extension from zip to 'exe' (wiki ban upload of exe files)

Start setup and select 'Recommended' type of installation which will install all files required by Gramps

Package content

GTK+ 2.16.6

WebKitGTK+ 1.1.23

...

Known bugs

no icons

no translations (help would be appreciate to solve this)

Test your installation Easiest way to test your GTK installation is to install gtk2-demo and run gtk-demo.exe Easiest way to test your WebKitGTK installation is to install libwebkit-tools and run GtkLauncher.exe